Automatic player.



J. A. WESER.

AUTOMATIC PLAYER. APPLICATION FILED PEB.8, 1909.

1,035,285, Patented Aug. 13, 1912.

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WITNESSES J A. WEBB, AUTOMATIU PLAYER. APPLICATION FILED FEB.8,1909

Patented Aug. 13, 1912.

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1' will now doscribe the parfiicniar embodiments of my invention iii'ustratdi in the drawings and will reserve it to the cinims to point out tho novel features of tho devioos sh 'WI} and. to iiefine tho scope of tho 'gionn S in tho dnnwings the three forms "n. of {the imp fl dmmlfl iiiuotmt'o non mention with, a well known form of hammer a, aide 8183 action which will, therefore, not reigning anything more than a general desori tion. Thns, 1 1s a piano string, 2 the my on 4 of a piano key, 8 is a. rail extending horizontally across the instrument and forming the main support of the parts of the hammer action, and 4 is another stationary-rail below the first and assisting in the support of certain parts of the action. 1

5 is a hummer 6 isi ts stemflfnlcrumed at 7 to the rail 3; 8 is a rest rail supporting the stems 6 of the hammers when in their nan-playing position away from the strings. 9 the "Nippon pivotaily eonnectei to .4 3 mil 3; 10 is 7 ahon: the 'winpen by a almi having its lower and.

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nupponieci 011 aimk pim 7 J throw i'z in i the 4G is :1 lug extension coming in contaoi ported. s-m rnii motion ho jack 8 he hammer spring depending 12 213525 norm iiy tn cc:

whisk Wire is imatezi in. 'nnright that there will. he one of such Wiii s abstracth and has its upper 3115 ni'mizmiy connected. with the iorwnni mini: tho an and i on? x 4,

395cm ed. com upper and of the "who v n prises a hook, made in" .12 hooked into an. apex or eya in oh; end of the wipponr e s'iiaii a a referred to betwoen the lows-. and or mm wire and the abstract 14? compriraes' 51. Eng 18 fixed on the lower end of the ahs'nraoi; anti having a vertical opening through it. In this opening is aiidingly receivefi tho and of 100 the wirev 16 which, for this purpose, is bent upward to pass vertically u-fiward through the opening. Intermediately, the wire 16 is bent at two or more places to provide the overhanging shoulders 17., one of which I overhangs anextension 1.9 from the movable part of the hnmmer pneumatic 20 belonging to timtparticular unit of the action. In this connection, it is appropriate to explain that the other hammer neumatics 20 and 1 

